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How to rename "category" slug?

         

Gemini23

11:38 pm on Dec 7, 2014 (gmt 0)

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I have a website which has news items daily -

Is it possible to rename the "Category" slug? and if so how?

There are permalink settings of
/news/%post_id%/%postname%/
and this work fine on posts

but on the category 'pages' I get the following for example
news/category/news/

The duplication of "news" isn't great but it is the word "category" that serves no seo purpose.

Suggestions anyone?

lorax

1:27 am on Dec 8, 2014 (gmt 0)

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/category/ only appears when you're viewing the category page. But if you really want to get rid of it, you might find the Remove Category Plugin helpful [wordpress.org...]

TechBuddy

5:37 am on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)



try this :-
/%category%/%post_name%/

Gemini23

3:44 pm on Mar 14, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Having another look at this...

The plugin (as mentioned by lorax) suggested has mixed reviews with some saying that it causes problems - so I am very reluctant to try it.

The thing is that I have several hundred posts and IF I change or add 'category' (to all posts then any social likes etc will revert to zero - as the posts urls will all change)

All I want to do is to remove the word "Category" (Or rename it) from the category pages.

Any suggestions?